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Are people gaming the algorithms or is it the other way around?
Jack Perez
Julian Scott
yt is absolute cancer
Caleb Richardson
>Are people gaming the algorithms
Yes.
This has literally been known for years, and many YT content creators have spoken about it.
Jackson Robinson
Reminder that this kind of content is aimed at zoomers. Zoomers and kids in general are a gigantic untapped market, and youtubers are the first to really understand this.
David Long
Jesus christ, what is that image? It's horrifying.
Elijah Rogers
Even the Greeks knew the meme effect of exaggerated expressions
Elijah Adams
less youtubers and more google. monetized videos with a lot of views have infinitely higher priority than everything else. plus click bait videos that draw attention get pushed up even higher. Google couldn't give 2 shits what content gets favored as long as it doesn't make them look bad and gives profit
Ian Jones
Not just aimed at zoomers, aimed at advertisers so they have their safe space so they don't pull an add due to things like swearing. It's really just a bias towards advertisers.
Luis Allen
Welcome to capitalism
Jackson Peterson
It aint just that, they try to push corporate media and push out the independent journalists on both sides of the spectrum. It's basically censorship so you don't know the truth about what's going on.
Hunter Gomez
They're just using the same sort of psychological manipulation techniques you use in all mass media to maximize views
someones face making a stupid expression triggers your brain and makes you more likely to click the video
David Hill
youtube.com
I don't think they're gaming youtube, but just doing stupid loud shit that normals love. I just wish I could make millions by smiling yelling and acting like a child.
Blake Nguyen
crony capitalism*
in a free market, google wouldn't be this powerful.
Henry Russell
>just doing stupid loud shit that normals love
I think your IQ has to been well below average to watch videos like this
Benjamin Davis
>in a free market, google wouldn't be this powerful.
google started from nothing and turned into an evil megacorporation when they became successful, it has nothing to do with cronyism
Tyler James
>google used to be good
Shoot yourself
Joshua Carter
Ugh, I always have to delete these videos from my history again after clicking on them. Once YouTube starts thinking I could like one of their advertiser friendly YouTubers my whole recommended videos list gets flooded with their content.
Levi Brown
In a free market Google would have either never been able to start because General Oil Search Engine would have taken over, or Google would be the first global monopoly of all markets.
Xavier Rogers
>I think your IQ has to been well below average to watch videos like this
You're probably higher on the bell curve than you give yourself credit for. Think about the last public school you went to that wasn't a magnet school, and picture the vast number of kids in the "normal" classes who never took physics or latin. They are the ones who vote up "look at my dog lol" on reddit, and watch youtube crap like this.
Christopher Wright
Its kids with automatically play next video turned on. They sit watching that shit for hours.
Sebastian Wilson
His face scares me.
Cooper Wright
>and picture the vast number of kids in the "normal" classes who never took physics or latin.
Are you 70 years old or something?
Zachary Morales
Apparently thumbnails like that get the clicks.
Evan Diaz
yeah, I knew the latin thing was a mistake
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Xavier Martin
The algo games the people they just don't know know it.
Austin Price
>babies click whatever they find appealing to watch
>algo learns
>insanity rises on top
Blame the toddlers that are fucking retarded
Mason Ross
>Blame the toddlers that are fucking retarded
Watch morning TV sometimes. Normal adults eat up drivel. Occasionally I have to work in a house while the homeowner is there with the TV on, and it's absolute torture.
Eli Rogers
If you had javascript disabled by default and didn't have a jewgle account this wouldn't be happening.
Kevin Harris
no, they've figured out the algortithms for 9 year olds
Carter Hill
If you don't control the algorithms, the algorithms control you
William Carter
well fuck, I guess we soviet russia now
Carter Harris
I think people in general are less dumb than you give them credit for, because most normal people like garbage but not absolute garbage like this or logan paul
Daniel Evans
>thumbnail
>bright colors
>open mouth/outrageous reaction
Pretty much a science at this point. Just scroll the 'Trending' page -- its all open mouths with some form of bright color splashed all over it. Normies+Childrean eat that format up, without being self-aware they are doing it.
motherboard.vice.com
Lucas Murphy
This guy is just as much hacking the viewer's brain than he is hacking the algorithm. His thumbnails are so eerily bizarre that people can't help to click on them.
Benjamin Garcia
If you were around during the first year of youtube, back then you had no control over thumnails, and I think it just took the middle frame, which quite often was blank.
Anyway, one of the first 10 million view clips was two Israli girls just dancing around to the Pixies "Hey", but at one point one girl with really long legs wearing shorts had just shifted around, and the thumbnail was her bodacious legs spread wide, which probably accounted for about 99.99% of the views.
Matthew Walker
>Pretty much a science at this point
exactly.
anything that can make you money gets over the time more and more formatted and optimized to squeeze out more money (views in this case).